North Korea was at the heart of the latest UN Security Council meeting. Washington's top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, praised progress made in relations between the two countries - just a year since President Trump vowed to "totally destroy" the reclusive state.Read more.

September 26, 2018

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - White House national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday dismissed an EU plan for a special payments plan to circumvent U.S. sanctions against Iranian oil sales and pressed the SWIFT global payments messaging system to rethink dealing with Tehran.

Speaking at a conference, Bolton also said the United States would be “aggressive and unwavering” in enforcing economic sanctions on Iran that are resuming after Washington withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Read more.

September 25, 2018

Remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal have promised to establish a ‘special purpose vehicle’ to facilitate payments related to Iran’s exports as part of efforts to salvage the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action after the US’ withdrawal.

European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held a joint press conference on Monday night (New York local time) to elaborate on the results of a meeting between the remaining parties of JCPOA, namely France, the UK, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran. Read more.

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Russia on Tuesday accused Israel of a "hostile provocation" in striking the Syrian port city of Latakia and threatened retaliation after Moscow blamed Israel for indirectly causing a Russian military plane with 15 servicemen on board to be shot down near Syria's Mediterranean coast. Read more.

China is apparently reluctant to hold any trade negotiations with the US under the current circumstances as it said it would not talk under pressure, even though it did not completely forgo the negotiations, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Chinese officials. Read more.

September 15, 2018

The head of the Organization of American States (OAS), accused by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of being a “CIA agent,” says military intervention against Caracas should not be ruled out as a response to the ongoing crisis.
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Secretary-General Luis Almagro has hinted that the bloc may consider taking military action in Venezuela if it runs out of diplomatic options in its bid to alleviate the plight of people in the crisis-stricken country. Read more.

September 14, 2018

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov told RT’s editor-in-chief they had nothing to do with the Skripals’ poisoning and are now scared to go outside, after the UK pointed to them as Russian intelligence agents on a kill mission.

UK prosecutors claimed their names were not real, but Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov have confirmed their identities in an interview with RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan. Read more.

September 13, 2018

The White Helmets have shot at least nine videos intended to serve as proof in accusations that the Syrian government conducted a chemical weapon attack using chlorine against civilians in Idlib, the Russian military claims.

A number of Middle Eastern TV channels and a regional affiliate of a US broadcaster “have shot nine videos, in Jisr al-Shughur city in Idlib province, of a staged chemical attack” that will be blamed on the Syrian government, the Russian Reconciliation Center In Syria said in a statement on Wednesday. Read more.

WILLEMSTAD - At the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office Curaçao, former Minister of Finance George Jamaloodin (50) was handed over by the Venezuelan authorities to the judicial authorities of the country Curaçao. Jamaloodin was transferred from Caracas to Hato airport by members of the Curaçao Arrest Team.

In the Maximus investigation, Jamaloodin is suspected of involvement in the murder of Helmin Wiels in May 2013. Read more.

September 11, 2018

Turkey’s president has urged the international community to be aware of its responsibilities in Syria as an assault on Idlib looms.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan evaluated the latest developments in northwestern Idlib province and Turkey’s position on the matter in an article he wrote for the U.S. daily The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 10. Read more.

September 10, 2018

How did the war in Afghanistan start? And how did NATO become involved in this conflict?

These details are never discussed because they have for nearly two decades, been hidden behind a shroud of secrecy. But now, after nearly two decades of lies, the remarkable truth about the secret documents that helped launch the Afghan war can finally be revealed.

This is the story of The Secret Lie That Started the Afghan War. Read more.

In response to US sanctions, Russia, Turkey and Iran are negotiating the reduction of the US dollar's share in mutual trade, Tehran Times daily quotes the country's central bank governor as saying.

Eliminating the greenback in mutual trade was most recently discussed by the three countries last weekend in Tehran during the trilateral summit of the Syrian ceasefire, said Iranian Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati as quoted by the media. Read more.

India and the United States have inked a pact on military communications which will pave the way for supplies of highly sensitive military equipment to New Delhi.

The accord was signed after the U.S. Secretary of State and Defense Secretary met their Indian counterparts in the Indian capital. The two side also discussed U.S. waivers to India from sanctions on Iran. Our correspondent Sanjay Sethi has more.

Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari says military operations against terrorist factions in the militant-held province of Idlib is a sovereign right of the Arab country and liberating the northwestern region “will be the last nail in the coffin of terrorism.”

Addressing a Friday United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the expected military operation in Idlib, Jaafari further said Damascus' right to launch the offensive is also guaranteed by international law, the UN Charter, and Security Council resolutions on counter-terrorism. Read more.

Violence has once again erupted in southern Iraq as anti-government protesters clash with security forces in the city of Basra

Health and security officials say at least three people were killed and dozens of others, including 11 police officers, wounded in the clashes. Several offices belonging to political parties and the local office of a state-run TV channel were damaged by fire set by protesters. Following the acts of violence, local authorities announced a curfew in the city until further notice.

People in the southern oil-rich city are frustrated with unemployment, lack of water and poor public services. They have been urging authorities for the past several months to respond to their demands to prevent situation from getting worse.

September 6, 2018

View hereEpisode 1 of a multi-part documentary about vaping; the technology behind it, the vaping industry, the culture and community and the movement.

Episode 1 is about the causes of tobacco addiction, the possibility that nicotine is not the main cause of addiction, (that MAOI's in combination with the thousands of other chemicals in combustible tobacco may be the actual cause,) and discussion about current FDA approved NRT's (nicotine replacement therapies) and their effectiveness.

September 5, 2018

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has carried out more than 200 attacks against Iranian targets in Syria in the last two years, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday, in a rare summary of its campaign.

According to regional sources, Israel began carrying out military strikes in Syria in 2013 against suspected arms transfers and deployments by Iranian forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies, both Damascus's partners in Syria's civil war. Read more.

September 4, 2018

US President Donald Trump has warned Syrian leader Bashar Assad not to attack Idlib province, one of the last terrorist hideouts in the country, also advising Iran and Russia against taking part in the “potential human tragedy.”

Expressing concern that hundreds of thousands of lives might be at risk in the Syrian Army’s looming operations to clear the Idlib province of militants, Trump cautioned Damascus, as well as Moscow and Iran, against “making a grave humanitarian mistake.” Read more + video.

Police in Norway are looking into the disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, a Dutch citizen with links to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Versions on Twitter have ranged from a hiking incident, to a secret assignment, to a CIA hit.Read more.

September 1, 2018

BAKU - Some believe that poverty and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa is the result of the centuries of exploitation by foreign powers. Others blame it on poor African leadership and argue that the outside world has provided substantial aid in recent decades.

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth by Tom Burgis dismisses these beliefs and reveals a web of corporate structures that holds both African leaders as well as powerful international institutions complicit in the modern plunder of Africa.

A high-ranking Saudi official says his country is seriously considering constructing a canal that would turn tiny neighbor Qatar into an island, amid the ongoing Saudi-led diplomatic and trade boycott against the energy-rich Persian Gulf kingdom.

“As a citizen, I am impatiently waiting for the details of the implementation of the East Salwa island project. Read more.

(CNN) US intelligence and military targeting experts have drawn up a preliminary list of Syrian chemical weapons facilities that could be struck if President Donald Trump were to order a new round of airstrikes in the country, multiple US officials tell CNN.

A decision to take action has not been made, but one administration official with direct knowledge of the current situation told CNN the military "could respond very quickly" if Syria launched a chemical weapons attack, and the initial targeting data assembled would give the Pentagon a head start if the President decides to take action. Read more + video.